Seaside, Oregon - World's Largest Sitka Spruce Stump

Seaside, Oregon - Stump of Spruce Giant Still Popular

America's Largest Sitka Spruce Stump: Along the Oregon coast stood America’s largest Sitka spruce, a tourist stop for years among people who like to look at big trees. [09/11/2008] Complete Story...

Seaside, Oregon - World's Largest Sitka Spruce Tree

A celebrated Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) on Klootchy Creek near Seaside, Oregon, receives so many visitors that recently a $50,000 boardwalk was constructed to preserve its roots from compaction. It is perhaps 700 years old, and truly amazing in stature. Based on its wood volume (10,800 cubic feet), it is the third largest spruce in the world --although in pioneer times bigger specimens existed. Its top broke at 206 feet, it is 93 feet wide, and its trunk is 56'1" circumference (about 18 feet in diameter) as of 1988. Earth's tallest spruce, the "Carmanah Giant" on Vancouver Island, was 314 feet tall in 1992. [catyjean, 04/03/2005]

[RA: February 2008: Patsy reports "This tree was destroyed by a storm December 2007." the storm pack 105 mph gusts and knocked down most of the famous Sitka Spruce Tree.]